Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd.: Active Exploration Season Planned for 2011

Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. ("Mountain Boy") (TSX VENTURE:MTB) announces that in
2011 the company will actively explore nine of the Company's projects. The
largest two, Silver Coin and the BA, are totally funded by the joint venture
partners. There is no cost to Mountain Boy. A description of the projects and
work programs are as follows:


Silver Coin

Mountain Boy announces that its joint venture partner, Jayden Resources Inc. has
approved a $5 million dollar budget for a significant development drilling
program at the Silver Coin Project near Stewart, B.C., with an anticipated
start-up by June 1. At present Mountain Boy owns 30% of the project with Jayden
having the option to earn an additional 10% through this year's program. The
overall goals for Silver Coin project in the coming year are to significantly
advance the project towards production by expanding the resource and upgrading
existing resource classifications, improving understanding of metallurgy and
processing options, continuing to refine mine engineering and project economics
and continuing our ongoing environmental studies. Jayden aims to bring the
project to the prefeasibility stage by early 2012. In addition, this year's
program will have a strong geologic component which will significantly enhance
the company's ability to model the already demonstrated, significant high-grade
portions of the Silver Coin deposit.


Drilling Program 

Additional drilling is required to upgrade resource classification and to expand
the existing resource. Infill drilling will facilitate upgrade of the resource
from the inferred category to measured and indicated, as well as contribute
significantly to ongoing efforts to build a comprehensive geologic model for
Silver Coin's mineralization. Approximately 80% of the planned 2011 drilling
will be comprised of infill and close extension drilling, with the additional
20% focusing on exploration drilling on several surface showings of
mineralization outside of the resource area that have not been drill tested. We
are planning 15,000 to 20,000 metres of diamond drilling and two drill rigs have
been contracted through Sunrise Drilling Ltd., Burnaby, B.C. In addition to
resource drilling, the Company is considering additional drilling to collect
geotechnical and hydrological data, however this program has not been finalized
at this time.


Metallurgy and Processing 

Additional metallurgical testing is planned and will involve the creation of a
new master composite sample at a grade of 1 gram per tonne gold. Further
flotation and cyanidation tests will be conducted on the composite in a
continuing effort to optimize recoveries. This work is being supervised by F.
Wright Consulting, Vancouver, B.C. The drilling of large diameter metallurgical
core may be undertaken later in the season to conduct comminution tests, and, if
necessary, to further optimize recoveries based on variations in deposit grade
and mineralogy. 


Mining Engineering 

The Company is currently soliciting bids for additional engineering studies.
These will focus on facilities layout, including power and roads, waste and
tailings engineering and pipelines. 


Environmental Studies 

Geochemical characterization of waste rock and low grade mineralization are
underway, to determine the acid generating potential of Silver Coin, and
appropriate mitigation measures. Baseline surface water studies were initiated
in the past and data collection to support these studies is continuing with
additional sampling and monitoring. Plant and wildlife studies are also planned,
and the company continues to collect meteorological data from its onsite weather
station. AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc., Vancouver, B.C., has been contracted
to complete this work. 


The BA, George Copper and Surprise Creek Projects

Great Bear Resources Ltd. ("Great Bear") is earning a 51% interest in the BA
project. The Surprise Creek property, located immediately north of the BA
project, is included under the terms of the JV Agreement The terms of this
agreement (announced on October 28, 2010) are as follows: 




--  Acquisition costs for the Surprise Creek property will be borne entirely
    by Great Bear, and will be applied against its earn-in requirement
    towards the BA property. 
--  Great Bear now has until December 2015 to complete a Positive
    Feasibility Study that will give it the option to acquire a 70% interest
    in the BA project. 
--  In addition, Great Bear is now required to fund all costs associated
    with the BA project through December 2015. 



In 2010, all zones explored and discovered were expanded through sequential step
out drilling. The drilled strike length of the Main zone has been extended to
800+ metres, while the Stockwork zone has been extended to 300+ metres.
Prospecting at the George Copper claims on the BA property has resulted in
discovery of multiple gold bearing structures associated with a higher
temperature phase of the VMS system that is developed at BA. 


In 2011, Great Bear will apparently continue exploration on the joint venture
properties.


Dunwell Project

The Dunwell Gold Mine is a former producing gold mine owned 100% by the
Company,and is located 7.5 kilometres northeast of Stewart BC, 2 kilometres off
paved highway 37A. The property has excellent infrastructure. In addition its
low elevation allows for year round exploration.


Drilling is directed at expanding the zones of mineralization, established in
2009 and 2010. Holes to date have intersected pyrite, sphalerite, galena and
chalcopyrite mineralization within quartz breccia and brecciated argillite zones
next to altered weakly mineralized dyke rocks. Mineralization forms zones
ranging from 3 to 9 metres in width. Drilling is intersecting these zones
between 170 and 260 metres below the original gold mine's No. 4 level, the
lowest level on which mining occurred during previous operations. This drilling
has extended the zone 75 metres along strike over a dip extent of 260 metres.
The mineralized zone is open in all directions. Recent drilling is testing the
zone just below the No 4 Level down to the area of the deep intersections. 


MB Silver and FR

Mountain Boy plans to explore the high grade silver properties it owns along
American Creek during the 2011 field season. The exploration will follow up on
results obtained in programs carried out in 2006 and 2007. Elevated silver
values occur in replacement type mineralization, sulphide veins and breccia
zones within rocks along the valley. The main properties to be explored include
the Mountain Boy and FR claims. The Company plans to explore both the High Grade
and Mann veins with approximately 5,000 metres of drilling.


Blackwater Area 

Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. acquired 3 separate blocks of claims (by jointly
staking with its partner Decade Resources Ltd.) in the Blackwater region of BC.
One block adjoins the discovery property owned by Richfield Ventures Ltd. The
companies acquired a total of 37,296.28 ha in 80 claims. The properties are
readily accessible along a well developed network of established forestry roads
in the area. 


At Blackwater, disseminated gold-silver mineralization and high-grade gold in
shear-hosted veins is reported as being hosted in Jurassic aged Hazelton Group
rhyolites. 


Mountain Boy and Decade plan to explore the claims with a program of geochemical
sampling and prospecting starting in the next 2 weeks.


Red Cliff

A program of modeling all available drill data will be incorporated in planning
the next drill program. 


This is the area where extremely rich zones have been identified. One of the
holes (DDH-MON-31) yielded 25.91 meters of 10.91 grams gold per ton. There are
approximately 150 drill holes from the Redcliff and Montrose zones to be entered
into a concentrated program. The Company plans to use the information to guide
in continued exploration, particularly on the Montrose zone where the goal is to
define a gold resource.


Ed Kruchkowski, P. Geo., a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101,
has prepared this release and is charge of the exploration program on behalf of
the company.


About Mountain Boy Minerals: 

Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian based mineral exploration company with
diverse property and resource holdings around the Stewart region in British
Columbia's golden triangle. It owns 30% of the Silver Coin project, a
gold-silver-base metals project that is having a new 43-101 compliant resource
calculated. The Company is also exploring silver-base metals on its American
Creek and Bear Valley properties as well as copper-gold on their Stewart area
claims. 


For further information, please contact Company investor relations at
604-681-0710, Ed Kruchkowski at 250-636-9232 or visit the website at
http://www.mountainboyminerals.ca (The Company website is being changed at
present and will be available shortly). 


ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD 

Ed Kruchkowski, Director 

"This news release may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent
risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those
currently anticipated in such statements."
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